C.V. KARTHIKEYAN, J.

1. This appeal has been filed against the dismissal of O.S. No. 15 of 2007, by the learned Principal District Judge, Pudukkottai, by judgment, dated 30.09.2009.

2. The plaintiffs are the appellants. The plaintiffs had filed O.S. No. 15 of 2007, seeking compensation for the death of their 12 years old son, by electrocution. In the suit, they had sought a judgment and decree for a sum of Rs. 12,10,000/- (Rupees Twelve Lakhs Ten Thousand only). They had instituted the suit as indigent persons. The suit was dismissed. This appeal has also been presented by them as indigent persons.

3. It is the case of the plaintiffs that on 07.11.2003, their son, Pandi alias Pandithurai, aged about 12 years, had died due to electrocution by stepping on a cut live wire, when he was going to have his bath at around 08.00 a.m. along with his friends at Nainankollai Village, in the field of Ramalingam, where, there were banana plantations. While going to have his bath, the said Pandi alias Pandithurai, stepped on a cut live wire, which was a High Tension wire and suffered electrocution and died on the spot itself. He was taken to the Government Hospital and was declared as brou